DNC raised over $7M in September

September was the Democratic National Committee’s best fundraising month of the year.

The DNC — which has been mired in debt and struggling to raise cash since the 2012 election — raised $7.38 million and increased its cash on hand to $5.5 million, a party official told POLITICO.

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That’s the best fundraising month the party has had all year and edges out the previous high of $6.3 million raised in April.

The committee is also sinking more than $1 million in resources into the final weeks of the Virginia gubernatorial race. The party made two $500,000 transfers to the Democratic Party of Virginia in support of Democratic nominee Terry McAuliffe — one in September and one in October.

The party has also made in-kind contributions of staff resources and other political assets to support McAuliffe, who is facing Republican Ken Cuccinelli in the November election.

The DNC also recently used President Barack Obama’s extensive email list to target Cuccinelli as out of step in a fundraising email to voters nationwide.

“Ken Cuccinelli took legal action against one of the country’s best universities (which happened to be his OWN client) because he disagreed with a study on climate change research. He’s one of those people who still doesn’t believe in global warming,” the DNC wrote in an email that went out under former President Bill Clinton’s name. “Oh, and he was the first person in the United States to sue the federal government to overturn the Affordable Care Act.”

The party has been struggling in fundraising since the 2012 election — as it taps the same donor exhausted Democratic pool as the nonprofit group formed to support President Barack Obama’s agenda, Organizing for Action.

The DNC has accrued more than $21 million in debt by the end of 2012 — and fundraising has been at its lowest point since at least 2003.